On Saturday, November 16, join Prix Goncourt-winner Hervé Le Tellier and writer Katie Kitamura for a conversation on navigating realities through the lens of imagination. 

The conversation will take place in English and will be followed by a book signing. This event is free with RSVP. Click here for tickets. 

This event is co-organized with Villa Albertine, and is a part of Albertine’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. 

HERVÉ LE TELLIER is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. He has been a member of the Oulipo group since 1992 and one of the “papous” of the famous France Culture radio show. He has published numerous books, including stories, essays, memoirs, and novels, such as winner of the 2020 Goncourt Prize The Anomaly (trans. by Adriana Hunter, Other Press), which has sold more than one million copies worldwide and will soon be adapted for television. Other titles include All Happy Families (trans. by Adriana Hunter, Other Press) and Electrico W (trans. by Adriana Hunter, Other Press). 

KATIE KITAMURA’s most recent novel is Intimacies (Riverhead Books). One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations. Katie Kitamura teaches in the creative writing program at New York University. 

Photos credits: © Francesca Mantovani – Editions Gallimard / © CL